If you're worried about old settings it may be easiest for you to just grab a fresh copy of Boinc and your applicable files and start from there. I'm running stock 6.10.60 using Jason's 41x and I'm getting lightning fast downloads, 50-190 MB tasks per request. I picked up around 1000 tasks today in around an hour.

2. Our Turtle case should be there today or tomorrow. The gripe I have is the tracking number 43X2150354845297 they gave me. For the life of me I can't sort out what method MacMall used to ship this case.

3. Our 16 Hydrogen / SETI Storage Array drives will ship tomorrow per my phone call with CompSource today. We should see the array fully populated around the middle of next week.

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New Projects:

As I've mentioned earlier, our next project will be replacing Vader and Bruno in their upload/download capabilities. Matt, Jeff, Eric and the GPUUG team are working on sorting out specs. We should have our specs ready next week if not sooner.

We're currently evaluating the feasibility of utilizing one very beefy server to handle both upload and download tasks or if two separate machines are required. Once the SETI guys sort that bit out, we'll be good to go.

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Lastly I'd like to thank sincerely our donors to the GPUUG General Fund. To be honest we were running a bit low on general funds with which to cover things like website domains and quickly needed purchases. Thanks to a few recent donors, we've crept back toward more comfortable levels. Thanks again to everyone who donated via http://www.gpuug.org/catalog/28

That's all I have for now everyone. I'll keep everyone updated as things progress. Thank you for your interest and support!

Thanks to last weekend, we've cleared our plate for fundraisers which leaves us wide open for new projects.

We're currently waiting for final specs for a new server. This server will be specifically slated to do nothing but replace our two remaining old upload and download servers. Once completed this should stop our issues with trying to find a good server/bad server. when getting work.

I'm also working on getting the project a load balancer donated which, unlike our faulty software based load balancing, should actually go a long way in fixing our upload and download issues, especially the hung connections and instant retries.

So in short, we're focusing solely on fixing our work unit flow issues right now. Once our new project specs come through I'll set us up a new fundraiser, close this thread and open a new one. Thanks for your interest everyone!

Thankfully you use the best hard drives made, and not using garbage Seagate. WDC cheaps out and makes it difficult to do RAID as they implement a TLER (or lack of) on their black drives, and comparing to Hitachi, Hitachi is still better quality. Eight years, I still have yet to have a Hitachi drive fail on me. I have eight 2TB Hitachi drives chugging away at home on my AMCC controller, and at $160 a piece, that was a bit of coin I had to sacrifice to retain all my data. Newegg may not have many Hitachi's available, but NCIX does. I wouldn't go 3TB or 4tb yet as the cost per GB goes up drastically over the traditional and more compatible 2TB capacities, unless you want to save on electricity costs or have a limited space for installation. I wish I knew what Hitachi is doing as FTC ruled that WDC sell Hitachi to Fujitsu, who currently doesn't sell desktop drives. So much competition with solid state these days, it wouldn't surprise me that WDC buys up all the magnetic data storage companies soon, only to go bust. Hitachi has the power to take over the hard drive market a year ago, shame to see them attempt to bail out.

I have many Seagate hard drives in the 1tb or 1.5TB capacities which I would be willing to donate, one of which randomly locks up depending where you read data and the others with numerous bad sectors and such which I no longer trust using. Gave up on them as Seagate kept sending me melons for the ones I sent them, though maybe if you use them intermittently, they may be ok. 4.5TB in total I would donate, if you are willing to chance it, or if you are willing to deal with Seagate with warranty.

You guys should be able to e-mail me if you want to take up my offer, as I used it to log on just now.

We've had some bad luck with Seagate recently, mostly with dead on arrival drives and likely due to the recent flooding that affected the entire hard drive industry. The good news is Seagate has been very good with their RMA process on replacing faulty drives.

I'll ask and see if they could use your drives. Thanks for the interest!

We've ordered all of the above (minus the drives for SETI to order) as of today. You can see these purchases by visiting http://www.gpuug.org/purchases

That wraps up this fundraiser for the weekend. I'd like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who helped make this fundraiser a huge success. In one fell swoop, thanks to the initiative of Mr. Kevvy we have finished two projects for SETI at Home.

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What this fundraiser means for the project:

Green Bank:

SETI at Home will now have 20 2TB hard drives (total of 40TB) with which to transport data between our observation telescopes and the SETI labs. These drives specifically are Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Drives.

Thanks to this fundraiser they will also have a Turtle Hard Drive Transport case which is essentially a Pelican case specifically designed for 20 hard drives at a go. We've tested these cases now for several months and thus far they've performed great. They're a huge improvement over our standard cardboard and foam transport boxes. This case is specifically the case found at this link http://www.turtlecase.com/productdetails.aspx?productid=603

Hydrogen / SETI Storage Array:

We've purchased the remaining 16 hard drives for the SETI Hydrogen / Storage array. For those unaware, this array will utilize one partition of drives to fulfill the needs of the lab's Hydrogen Array. The other partition will serve as a test bed for SETI Data Storage.

Our hopes are that in house data storage will be successful. If so, we will be moving toward increasing our in house data storage for SETI at Home, a prospect which will save the lab a significant amount of money which in turn will free up funding for other improvements in the lab.

Prior to this Weekend Fundraiser, we had purchased 20 drives for the Hydrogen / Storage array and when coupled with today's purchases, we've completely filled the JBOD.

I'd like to sincerely thank Mr. Kevvy for spearheading this fundraising weekend and our wonderful donors for contributing a stunning amount of funds. It makes me proud to see so many donors helping to improve the infrastructure of this project.

We've ordered all of the above (minus the drives for SETI to order) as of today. You can see these purchases by visiting http://www.gpuug.org/purchases

That wraps up this fundraiser for the weekend. I'd like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who helped make this fundraiser a huge success. In one fell swoop, thanks to the initiative of Mr. Kevvy we have finished two projects for SETI at Home.

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What this fundraiser means for the project:

Green Bank:

SETI at Home will now have 20 2TB hard drives (total of 40TB) with which to transport data between our observation telescopes and the SETI labs. These drives specifically are Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM001 2TB 7200RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Drives.

Thanks to this fundraiser they will also have a Turtle Hard Drive Transport case which is essentially a Pelican case specifically designed for 20 hard drives at a go. We've tested these cases now for several months and thus far they've performed great. They're a huge improvement over our standard cardboard and foam transport boxes. This case is specifically the case found at this link http://www.turtlecase.com/productdetails.aspx?productid=603

Hydrogen / SETI Storage Array:

We've purchased the remaining 16 hard drives for the SETI Hydrogen / Storage array. For those unaware, this array will utilize one partition of drives to fulfill the needs of the lab's Hydrogen Array. The other partition will serve as a test bed for SETI Data Storage.

Our hopes are that in house data storage will be successful. If so, we will be moving toward increasing our in house data storage for SETI at Home, a prospect which will save the lab a significant amount of money which in turn will free up funding for other improvements in the lab.

Prior to this Weekend Fundraiser, we had purchased 20 drives for the Hydrogen / Storage array and when coupled with today's purchases, we've completely filled the JBOD.

I'd like to sincerely thank Mr. Kevvy for spearheading this fundraising weekend and our wonderful donors for contributing a stunning amount of funds. It makes me proud to see so many donors helping to improve the infrastructure of this project.